Re: [FOSDEM 2012] GNUstep Devroom Schedule final - last call for changes

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 21.01.2012 um 15:03 schrieb Fred Kiefer:

> Fine by me,

So I can put your talk to "confirmed" in FOSDEM's scheduling system?

> as long as we drop the "Planned/upcoming features" part.

No problem for me.

> I already once lost my credibility by talking about gui 1.0 :-)

Well that's not that tragic. As Berthold Brecht said: "Ja, mach nur einen Plan, 
sei ein großes Licht. Und mach' dann noch 'nen zweiten Plan, gehen tun sie 
beide nicht."  ;-)

> 
> I will need another laptop to give the talk, as mine is so unreliable now 
> that I wont bring it along to FOSDEM. Will it be OK to mail the presentation 
> to you Lars? Or I bring it on an USB stick and we take what ever laptop is 
> available. That somewhat limits the amount of demo that will be possible as 
> we don't know that machine that will be available.

I'll bring my Laptop, a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard on it. No GNUstep on 
there so far. Maybe somebody else brings some Linux Laptop for the Demo? Or we 
sit down on Friday before FOSDEM and install GNUstep in a Virtual Box VM on 
mine.

> 
> Fred
> 
> On 20.01.2012 10:10, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
>> Hi Lars,
>> Sorry to reply at the last moment.
>> 
>> Fred and I were discussing a potential talk on gnustep-gui (I won't be 
>> attending but will help prepare slides for Fred to present.) It would likely 
>> be short (less than 30 minute) overview of advancements in gui in the last 
>> year.
>> 
>> Title: "GNUstep GUI: Recent Developments - Graphics and Text"
>> Topics covered:
>> -New features in the text system this year
>> -Resolution Independence/scale factor support
>> -Other graphics improvements
>> -Planned/upcoming features
>> -Demo
>> 
>> Would it be possible to fit this in (assuming Fred is okay with this plan?)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>> 
>> On 2012-01-19, at 3:09 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi GNUsteppers,
>>> 
>>> the schedule for the devroom is final so far:
>>> 
>>> Time Slot       Speaker                  Title
>>> Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
>>> 10:30 - 11:00   GNUstep Developers       GNUstep Developer's Meeting
>>> 11:00 - 11:30   Sebastian Reitenbach     OpenBSD GNUstep ports update
>>> 11:45 - 12:15   Sebastian Reitenbach     OpenGroupware - Phoenix from the 
>>> ashes
>>> 12:30 - 13:15   Sebastian Reitenbach     A GNUstep Applications Overview
>>> 13:30 - 14:00   Quentin Mathé            Étoilé: What has been done over 
>>> the past year and what's next?
>>> 14:15 - 15:00   Richard Frith-Macdonald  Enterprise Control, Configuration 
>>> and Logging/Alarming using GNUstep-base
>>> 15:15 - 16:00   Quentin Mathé            CoreObject : An Object Store built 
>>> for Revision Control and Desktop Environment Needs
>>> 16:15 - 17:00   David Chisnall           New Features of Objective-C
>>> 17:15 - 18:00   Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller QuantumSTEP: new frameworks and 
>>> future directions
>>> 
>>> or here:
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/FOSDEM_2012#Schedule
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The change to the previous version is that I've added the talk of Nikolaus 
>>> Schaller. If there is anything else that has to be changed in the last 
>>> minute please let me know it until Friday evening (let's say 20:00 CET).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> To Quentin: I am still waiting for a short description for the CoreObject 
>>> talk. You did not forget it, didn't you?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>>     Lars
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